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Recent exhaustive researches by Dr. John C. Phillips of Wenham, Mass., have incontrovertibly shown the decline of the Harvard birthrate. The research, on Harvard alone, is currently published in the Harvard Graduates' Magazine. It is not unlikely that the figures are representative of the trend of vital statistics in other higher-educated groups in the U. S. Dr. Phillips studied the reproductive activity of the Harvard classes of 1891-1900. The married graduates of this decade had produced but 2.33 children apiece. More alarming, the proportion of childless marriages had risen progressively from...
...justice. In the urgency of such calls, it has found new courage to make open appeal for the funds required to answer them, and we are glad that it has done so. Every dollar of that portion of the five millions of new endowment which is to go for research will help achieve for the American people values inestimably larger than their cost in money...
Important though the work of research is which Harvard desires to undertake in the several fields of law and of American legal institutions, we do not believe that the straight forward "day to day" needs of the school itself will have any less force of appeal to prospective donors. More than ever as the practice of law grows more complicated, and as the number of law schools increase which but poorly prepare their pupils to deal with these complications in an efficient way, the country's need of great and thoroughly adequate law schools increases. In the Harvard Law School...
...School has opened its drive with a definite appeal and a concise purpose. It asks four million dollars to improve its buildings and increase its teaching personnel. It asks an additional million for the establishment of five research professorships in American...
...research professorships intended promote a different but valuable service, oven now attempted by the Law School. They are similar in conception to the imminent analysis of Boston judicial system by the Law School Faculty. They aim at a delineation of American jurisprudence, opportune in a decade of strain on judicial forms...